Objetiva-se, nesse estudo, analisar os novos processos de modernização que se impõem nos cerrados piauienses produzidos pela presença da agricultura moderna. Tal movimento teve inicio nos anos 1970 com os primeiros projetos agropecuários e de reflorestamentos instalados através de incentivos fiscais e financeiros públicos, mais se consolida somente em meados dos anos 1990 com a ampliação do deslocamento de migrantes sulistas e de empresas do agronegócio para aquela área. Resultou dessa ocupação a apropriação privada de amplas parcelas de terras devolutas dos platôs planos onde havia uso comunitário pela população local, as quais são transformadas em mercadorias valorizadas no mercado imobiliário. As manifestações de mudanças aparecem tanto sobre o espaço agrícola que se altera diante da incorporação dos aparatos da técnica e da ciência tornando-se homogêneos, e sobre o espaço da cidade que ganha novas formas e funcionalidades. Tanto o rural quanto o urbano do sul do Estado do Piauí revelam os processos contraditórios da recente modernização, pois se transformam, simultaneamente, em espaços de produção de riqueza e de manifestação de crises. Ao mesmo tempo em que se anunciam formas inovadoras que aceleram o ritmo de produção e de circulação das mercadorias sob a liderança de empresas globais, evidencia-se a expropriação de levas de camponeses cujas únicas possibilidades disponíveis passam a ser a de venderem sua força de trabalho nas lavouras modernas de grãos em condições de extrema precarização, ou a de se instalarem nas periferias miseráveis das cidades do agronegócio. Acrescenta-se, ainda, como elemento da crise o agravamento das condições de degradação dos ambientes naturais por conta do avanço acelerado das lavouras modernas nos domínios dos gerais, afetando os ecossistemas locais. Busca-se, nesse sentido, apontar que a atual modernização dos cerrados piauienses se faz produzindo descompassos sócio-espaciais. Ela se configura, portanto, como um processo essencialmente excludente. / This study analyzes the new modernization processes raised at the cerrados in Piauí due to modern agriculture. This movement started in the early 1970´s together with the first cattle breeding and reforesting projects developed through state financial and fiscal incentives. These projects only started to consolidate around 1990´s as the displacement of people and agricultural business firms from the south of Brazil (?sulistas?) to Piauí increased. The result of this land occupation was the appropriation of vast plain plateaus escheated lands of communitarian use that turned to be commodities. These lands were valorized by housing market. Signs of these changes appeared both on the agricultural space, transformed by means of applying scientific and technological objects, which turned the space homogeneous, and the city space, that gained new shape and functionalities. Piaui´s southern urban and rural areas reveal contradictory process of this recent modernization, transformed simultaneously into spaces where richness and crisis manifestations are both produced. While innovation accelerating the production rhythm and the circulation of goods under global companies´ leadership is announced, the expropriation of peasants groups stands out. Now their possibilities only depend on selling their task force in the new corporate farming business in extremely hard working conditions or installing themselves at the poor outskirts of this agricultural business related cities. Furthermore, natural environment?s worsening conditions are a result of modern agricultural technology at those gerais. These conditions affect local ecosystems and add up another element to the crisis. In this way we intend to point out that the modernization of the cerrados piauienses is generating a socio-spatial imbalance, which configures itself as an essentially excluding process.

Most of Indiana corn and soybeans are placed into storage at harvest time to be delivered to market at a later date. Indiana farmers have many options regarding how and when to sell this grain. The present research addresses the issue of how to maximize the expected net returns to storage. The three central questions are: (i) which crop produces better returns? (ii) should the grain be stored unpriced or hedged using futures? and (iii) how long should grain be stored? Expected net returns for corn were maximized by storing unpriced until spring. However, unpriced corn storage provided positive returns less frequently than storage hedging. Unpriced soybean storage was better on average, and also produced positive returns more frequently than storage hedging. Returns were higher for soybeans than corn.

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / This research analyzes the Peruvian organic production coffee industry, the relationship between Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Supply Chain Integration (SCI) concerning the performance of the Cooperatives and the Coffee Associations in Junin Region of Peru. It also analyzes the current scenario of the Coffee Sector and the participation of the Supply Chain (SC) in the processing and distribution of Organic Coffee in Junin, Peru. A diagnosis was made to the certified organizations from the market. The diagnosis and the surveys indicated that they do not have a correct flow of information, shared goals and objectives, strategic decisions, and sourcing materials among the different parties demonstrating the lack of interrelationship among the members. The final objective of this research is to improve the competitiveness of these organizations through the increase in the performance of the SC, for which a model of supply chain integration is proposed. / Revisión por pares

Orientadora: Roseane Andrelo / Banca: Maximiliano Martin Vicente / Banca: Alexandra Bujokas de Siqueira / Resumo: O presente trabalho se insere no contexto da globalização cultural e do desenvolvimento contínuo das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, que ocupam cada vez mais espaço nas sociedades modernas, mas que também apresentam paradoxos em sua igualdade de acesso e conhecimento. Nesse mesmo cenário, inserem-se as mídias, fortalecidas pelas transformações sociais, de quebras de barreiras físicas e simbólicas, processos sociais caracterizados por constantes mudanças, como os migratórios, e que têm exercido papel fundamental na formação não só de opiniões e como fonte de informação, mas como bloqueio ou passagem à resistência. Sob uma visão crítica do modelo de globalização cultural, insere-se a mídia-educação, que busca trabalhar com jovens, através de propostas de uma educação intercultural, a criticidade com os meios e a criatividade para desenvolver de maneira participativa e libertadora sua identidade enquanto cidadãos. O trabalho motivou-se a descobrir se de fato a mídia-educação enquanto metodologia de ensino pode auxiliar no processo de aprendizagem dos alunos por meio de uma visão intercultural. O trabalho conta com aporte teórico-metodológico desenvolvendo as temáticas citadas e propôs o planejamento, execução e avaliação de atividades com alunos do primeiro ano ensino médio da Escola Estadual Professor Souza Nilo, da rede pública na cidade de Itanhandu, sob uma visão intercultural a respeito do agronegócio, ramo de vital importância para a realidade brasileira. A partir... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present work fits into the context of cultural globalization and the continuous development of information and communication technologies, which occupy more and more space in modern societies, but also present paradoxes in their equal access and knowledge. In this same scenario, the media are inserted, strengthened by social transformations, the breaking of physical and symbolic barriers, social processes characterized by constant changes, such as migratory ones, which have played a fundamental role in forming not only opinions and as a source of information, but as a block or passage to resistance. Under a critical view of the model of cultural globalization, we insert media education, which seeks to work with young people, through proposals for an intercultural education, criticality with the media and creativity to develop in a participatory and liberating way their identity as citizens. The work was motivated to find out if in fact the media education as a teaching methodology can assist in the learning process of the students through an intercultural view. The work has theoretical and methodological support developing the aforementioned themes and proposed the planning, execution and evaluation of activities with students of the first year high school of the Professor Souza Nilo State School, from the public school in the city of Itanhandu, from an intercultural perspective of agribusiness, a branch of vital importance to the Brazilian reality. From the analysis of t... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Timóteo Ramos Queiroz / Resumo: Este trabalho teve por finalidade analisar a dinâmica do capital de giro das empresas do agronegócio pertencentes aos segmentos de Agricultura, Açúcar e Álcool, e Carnes e Derivados, listadas na Brasil, Bolsa e Balcão (B3) frente a crise econômica brasileira de 2015. Para o cumprimento do objetivo a que este projeto se propôs, foi realizada uma análise das demonstrações financeiras referentes ao período de 2011/2018 das 14 empresas pertencentes aos segmentos citados. Tal análise teve como base a utilização do Modelo Fleuriet, ou ainda denominado como Modelo Dinâmico de Análise Financeira. A metodologia utilizada contou com uma abordagem quantitativa de caráter descritivo. Para cumprir com a finalidade proposta neste trabalho, foi realizada uma Análise de Conglomerados por meio do Método Hierárquico Aglomerativo de Ward, em seguida foram efetuados Testes de Hipóteses para Média das Diferenças a partir da técnica estatística Teste de Wilcoxon. Os resultados apontaram para uma mudança não universal na forma de associação das empresas. Desse modo, foi possível inferir, ceteris paribus, que a crise econômica brasileira influenciou na forma de associação das empresas analisadas, devido às variações positivas e negativas no saldo de tesouraria. Enquanto as organizações Biosev, Excelsior e SLC Agrícola passaram a integrar o primeiro cluster durante o período que compreendia a crise financeira, por conta da evolução nos seus respectivos saldos de tesouraria; as empresas Pomifrutas e T... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The purpose of this paper was to analyze the working capital dynamics of agribusiness companies belonging to the Agriculture, Sugar and Alcohol, and Meat and Derivatives segments, listed in Brazil, Bolsa e Balcão (B3) in the face of the 2015 Brazilian economic crisis. In order to achieve the objective of this project, an analysis was made of the financial statements for the 2011/2018 period of the 14 companies belonging to the mentioned segments. Such analysis was based on the use of the Fleuriet Model, or even referred to as the Dynamic Financial Analysis Model. The methodology used had a quantitative approach of descriptive character. To fulfill the purpose proposed in this work, a Cluster Analysis was performed using Ward's Agglomerative Hierarchical Method, then Hypothesis Tests for Differences Mean were performed using the Wilcoxon Test statistical technique. The results pointed to a non-universal change in the way companies associate. Thus, it was possible to infer, ceteris paribus, that the Brazilian economic crisis influenced the form of association of the companies analyzed, due to positive and negative variations in the cash balance. While the organizations Biosev, Excelsior and SLC Agrícola joined the first cluster during the financial crisis period, due to the evolution in their respective cash balances; Pomifrutas and Terra Santa companies showed a worsening in the average of the amounts related to this variable. / Mestre

Food regime theory emerged in the 1980s as a tool to delineate the history of the modern food system. Scholars insist that we have arrived at the third and putative corporate food regime that is dominated by a select group of agribusiness corporations. The corporate food regime"s ascent to dominance will be presented here as a product of the realization of neoliberal trade policies at the urging of the World Trade Organization. Initially promising development to fledgling countries, the WTO"s forays into agriculture have amounted to nothing less than a catastrophe for the Global South. The hope that developing countries would be able to trade their way out of debt has long been abandoned, and the gap between the developed and developing world has only been further exacerbated as a result of trade liberalization. Worse yet, the WTO"s Agreement on Agriculture was intentionally littered with loopholes that allow Northern countries to egregiously subsidize crops that are then exported off to Southern markets at artificially low prices, crippling local producers in the process. Through examining import and export flows in the Global South since the trade agreement, this cruel feature of the modern food system will become evident as will the subsequent jump in agribusiness" profits amid the direst of...

Rural agro-industry gives added value to peasant’s agricultural production. In Peru, many small farmers from highland areas are linked in this activity as a means of subsistence. These farmers, since ancient times, have performed all their field activities in balance with nature. In fact, the rural agribusiness has mostly been developed under agroecological principles. The main objective of this thesis the description of the characteristics of rural agribusiness and how this activity based on agroecology contributes to the conservation of the environment in the highland areas of Peru. The situation of rural agribusiness is reviewed from the global and local context of organic agriculture. It has also been taken the region of Lurin River Basin as a case study, where environmental, productive, marketing and institutional characteristics are described. Moreover, a study of the current and future situation using the scenario methods, and an analysis of sustainability is carried out for an organic farmers’ organization called “Association of Ecological Producers of the Lurin River Basin ‘Monticielo’”. Results of this thesis indicate that rural agribusiness in highland areas of Peru, specifically in the Lurin River Basin, is crucial sector it contributes to food security and generating income for rural families, conserve biodiversity and farmers` traditional knowledge has been used to address emerging issues of climate change. However, the main problems facing small producers are productivity, technology, marketing and organization.In the scenario analysis it has been identified that "Organic-point of sale" scenario can become a marketing point of eco-business efficiently, which could increase sales and improve the quality of life for farmers and for the environmental conservation. In conclusion, being closely linked to ecological farming practices, rural agribusiness is an important tool that contributes to the welfare of rural small farmers and environmental conservation.

Rural agro-industry gives added value to peasant‟s agricultural production. In Peru, many small farmers from highland areas are linked in this activity as a means of subsistence. These farmers, since ancient times, have performed all their field activities in balance with nature. In fact, the rural agribusiness has mostly been developed under agroecological principles. The main objective of this thesis the description of the characteristics of rural agribusiness and how this activity based on agroecology contributes to the conservation of the environment in the highland areas of Peru. The situation of rural agribusiness is reviewed from the global and local context of organic agriculture. It has also been taken the region of Lurin River Basin as a case study, where environmental, productive, marketing and institutional characteristics are described. Moreover, a study of the current and future situation using the scenario methods, and an analysis of sustainability is carried out for an organic farmers‟ organization called “Association of Ecological Producers of the Lurin River Basin „Monticielo‟”. Results of this thesis indicate that rural agribusiness in highland areas of Peru, specifically in the Lurin River Basin, is crucial sector it contributes to food security and generating income for rural families, conserve biodiversity and farmers` traditional knowledge has been used to address emerging issues of climate change. However, the main problems facing small producers are productivity, technology, marketing and organization. In the scenario analysis it has been identified that "Organic-point of sale" scenario can become a marketing point of eco-business efficiently, which could increase sales and improve the quality of life for farmers and for the environmental conservation. In conclusion, being closely linked to ecological farming practices, rural agribusiness is an important tool that contributes to the welfare of rural small farmers and environmental conservation. / www.ima,kth.se

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / A risk can be described as a situation that can negatively affect the development of an activity and the people involved that. In this sense, risk management is used to achieve a reduction or elimination of risk. The objective of the investigation was to determine factors that caused the low value of crop yield in a Peruvian banana supply chain. The research applied House of Risk (HOR) model to determine risk event and associated causes. As a result, strategies were proposed to mitigate the occurrence of risks in the company.

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial. / This research analyzes the current studies of supplier relationship management (SRM), based on a literature review to contrast and compare the evolution of SRM in agribusiness-oriented supply chain management (SCM). The result obtained in this research shows the agribusiness and its relationship with its suppliers. It also strives to identify potential models for a strong SRM. An SRM model is proposed to visualize the components that make up the management of suppliers in the agribusiness supply chain (SC).